He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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